The trailer of Ankahi Kahaniya, Netflix’s next anthology, was released by the streaming platform on Thursday. The three-part anthology is set to release on Netflix on September 17.
In Ashwini Iyer Tiwari’s Panga (screenplay by Nikhil Mehrotra and Tiwari with additions from Nitesh Tiwari), Prashant (Jassi Gill), Jaya (Kangana Ranaut) and Adi (Yagya Bhasin) are a tiny nuclear family in the city of Bhopal, Tiwari not yet planning to expatriate her focus away from northern Tier-II cities of India that have served her well so far.
The iReel Awards 2019, lauded and recognised makers and actors who have redefined and brought about a revolution in the web series space. The evening celebrated excellence in Indian homegrown content on OTT platforms. In attendance were Rajkummar Rao, Divyendu Sharma, Radhika Apte, Pankaj Tripathi, Rajshri Deshpande, Amol Parashar, Ranvir Shorey, Surveen Chawla and Aparshakti Khurrana. This was the second edition of the News18.com iReel Awards.
The awards were judged by Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, Shakun Batra and Onir. It was raining awards for Netflix as Delhi Crime, the pacey drama based on the Nirbhaya case, scooped the Best Drama award, the Best Writing (Drama) accolade as well as the versatile and very talented Shefali Shah going on to claim the Best Actress (Drama) award.
On winning the Best Drama award, Delhi Crime director Richie Mehta said, “This was a story that truly touched my heart. The unfortunate event in Delhi and what happened gripped me to an extent that I got in touch with a host of officials in Delhi Police and the IPS. Their insight and perspective helped us get a realistic and riveting take on an incident that shook the nation. I thank them entirely for being the reason for the show’s success.”
Sacred Games too added to Netflix’s trophy cabinet as Amruta Subhash claimed the Best Supporting Actor (Female) award and Alokananda Dasgupta bagged the Best Music Award. In the comedy genre, Netflix’s Little Things 2 earned the moniker of being the best in the business as they won the Best Comedy award. With a dark underlying theme backed with a host of well-etched characters, Delhi Crime made for a riveting take on the horrific 2012 incident in the capital. Shefali enacted the role of the protagonist Vartika Chaturvedi, DCP South Delhi. Little Things 2 was athe realistic tale of Dhruv and Kavya, a modern-day couple who go through a whole lot of ups and downs. Mithila Palkar of the show went on to claim the Best Actor Female (Comedy) award.
Winning plaudits for his portrayal as Kaleen Bhaiya in Amazon Prime’s Mirzapur, Pankaj Tripathi beat a host of other heavyweights to claim the Best Actor (Drama) award. Portraying the role of a city don who uses his legitimate trade as a cover for his guns and drugs business, Mirzapur proved that no role is tough enough for an actor of Pankaj Tripathi’s calibre. On winning the accolade, Pankaj Tripathi said, “I was part of three of the nominated web series here. I’m 44, If I had won this when I was 30, I would have broken down in tears owing to the sheer jubilation. I’ve lost that opportunity.”
For playing unconventional roles that has created new a benchmark, Radhika Apte, was presented the Breakthrough Artist award by Rajkummar Rao. She said, “It’s such an honour to have the opportunity to work on a platform that has today got so much attention. We now have the platform to churn out much better content over diverse genres. The best is yet to come in the web series space.”
Mirzapur went on to bag another award as Divyendu Sharma won the Best Supporting Actor (Male) for playing Phoolchand “Munna” Tripathi, a spoilt brat who wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a mafia don.
The Best Actor (Comedy) award was won by Amol Parashar for his quirky portrayal in TVF’s Tripling 2, while Nikhil Vijay for Gullak bagged the Best Writing (Comedy) award. Earning a reputation for their rib-tickling comedy on offer, Amazon Prime’s Comicstaan 2 won the Best Non-Fiction award. There was a special mention for Hawa Badle Hassu, a science-fiction environmental thriller.
Speaking of the event, Puneet Singhvi, CEO – Digital & President – Corporate Strategy at Network18 said, “Growing from strength to strength, the home-grown web series space in India has displayed tremendous amounts of innovativeness, and brilliance. As we celebrate the webspace, I feel extremely happy that we are the first to honour and acknowledge the stories and storytellers. This is a medium that propels creativity to greater heights resulting in some impeccable piece of work being created for audiences around the country. It is gratifying to see the country’s finest filmmakers, storytellers and actors have come together to celebrate the art of storytelling through digital media.”
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Kangana Ranaut-starrer Panga will release on January 24 next year. The movie, directed by Bareily Ki Barfi-fame Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, also stars Jassi Gil, Pankaj Tripathi and Richa Chadda.
Debut director ashwini iyer tiwari, takes a message oriented plot and develop through some interesting tricks makes it work and every mother and children can relate it and take lessons of life for sure.
Cinemas across the country are marching towards normalcy as films like Thalaivii, Laabam, and Seetimaarr which released in the second week of September, are continuing their successful run in the theatres.
Actor Kangana Ranaut’s next film titled Tejas will begin filming in December 2020, the makers have announced on Friday morning. Helmed by Sarvesh Mewara, the film is being bankrolled by Ronnie Screwvala‘s RSVP Movies, their second film on the Indian Armed Forces after Vicky Kaushal starrer Uri: The Surgical Strike. Tejas will see Kangana playing an Air Force pilot.
Riefenstahl would soon transition into her own prolific filmmaking career, the woman behind the most famous Nazi propaganda films, a talent Hitler recognised and admired.It’s also widely regarded that Leni Riefenstahl made two of the greatest documentaries ever – Olympia, hours of breath-taking footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, shot with an eye for the human body as the undying spirit, celebrating speed, height and strength, zooming in on Jesse Owens warming up or waltzing underwater with the camera.
Kangana Ranaut, who is currently basking in the success of her directorial debut Manikarnika, has announced her next project. The actress revealed that the movie would be an action, epic drama.
The trailer of Kangana Ranaut’s new movie Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi will release on December 18. Based on the story of the Rani Of Jhansi, Manikarnika will reach cinemas on January 25.
Kriti Sanon is an engineer by education, but ‘switched career paths’ once she got into modelling. “But for my parents, they wanted me to have a backup or security as all middle-class parents do.Kriti Sanon says that her ‘deglam’ role in Bareilly Ki Barfi helped change audience’s perception of her.
The film is written by Dangal director Nitish Tiwari and has music composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Tanishk Bagchi, Samira Koppikar, Sameer Uddin and Vayu.Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House (Partition: 1947 in Hindi) is a British-Indian historical drama starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi, and Michael Gambon.
Actress Sanya Malhotra, who shot to fame with her performance as wrestler Babita Phogat in the 2016 blockbuster Dangal, is being considered for Manmarziyan, reported Deccan Chronicle. According to the report, a source close to the film said, “Sanya is being seriously considered for Manmarziyan. The makers are yet to narrate the script to Sanya, but there’s little reason for her to turn it down.” Acting alongside Fatima Sana Sheikh in the Aamir Khan film, Sanya Malhotra garnered acclaim from cinema goers and critics alike.
Parched, her third film, which features Radhika Apte, Tannishthaa Chatterjee and Riddhi Sen, is a power-packed story about three women from rural India finding their voice and identity in a society where patriarchy and misogyny are part of daily life.The film, starring Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah, was one of the most critically acclaimed films in 2016, making it to the favourite list of every film critic in the country.
Speaking of his own struggles during school days, Dhanush said that after watching the trailer of Nil Battey Sanatta (starring Swara Bhaskar), he knew the film had to be remade in Tamil.Much to the audience’s amusement, a cheeky journalist asked Dhanush whether the ‘Amma’ in the film’s title was added in after the elections.
However, when asked if he would work with the actor again, Dhanush said, “Frankly, Wunderbar cannot really pay Siva Karthikeyan at the moment.Early in his career, Dhanush was going to work on a film with KS Ravikumar, but the plans fell through.As a producer, Dhanush, has had a fairly good record, with Wunderbar films producing a number of successful films.
As theatres across the country are limping back to normalcy, two big releases in the past week, Kangana Ranaut’s Thalaivii and Laabam, starring Vijay Sethupathi and Shruti Haasan, had a dull opening at the box office.
This strange dialectic, where both lend life and fiction lend material to each other and get locked in mutual definition and modification, is the central theme of the film, in my opinion.In Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s directed film Anupama (1966), Uma (played by Sharmila Tagore), a quiet, shrinking violet kind of person, finds herself the subject of a novel called Anupama.
Kangana Ranaut will be seen next as an Air Force pilot in Tejas. Produced by Ronnie Screwvala, the film is to be directed by Sarvesh Mewara. The first look poster dropped this morning. Kangana is seen in uniform holding a helmet in hand, next to an IAF jet aircraft.
A conventional, predictable, tiringly boring film named Maayanadhi. At a time when I’m already losing hope on this industry for the kind of films being churned out, this film adds to the angst, with a cliched love story that any Tom, Dick or Harry can narrate.Senthil’s father is lecturing Senthil, Anbarasan is lecturing everybody around him, Kousalya is lecturing her friends, and not to forget this one annoying auto-driver lecturing Mani (Appu Kutty), Senthil and their other friend.
The nominations for the 63rd Jio Filmfare Awards are out, featuring some good films and some not-so good films from last year.